As for the percentage of my docs I consider "sensitive", that's immaterial. They're mine, and they won't be residing on a server outside my control. I don't care what privacy policy google or anyone else has, I'm a sys admin, I know the power root has, I know how systems can get hacked. No, I'm not going to subject myself, my documents, to the possibility that some bored admin (and no, as an admin I never did that unless corp security so directed) might feel the need to go snooping through people's files. And from a government overstepping their bounds department, they must be salivating at the fact that people are going to start putting personal files on central servers. No need to go trying to get into (by whatever means) millions of individual computer systems, just one.
BTW: With VPN capabilities, you can make your own cloud that you can access from anywhere. And it's still under your control.
No, that is wrong. By Federal law, Internet Services Providers are required to keep copies of all email. You may no longer see it on the cloud, but it is in a cloud that both the ISP and the Federal government can see if they need to.
They're mine, and they won't be residing on a server outside my control.
All of your emails are sitting in an archive out of your control. If the federal government wants to read your past emails, they do not need a search warrant. All they need is an order from court, and you will never be notified they are reading your old emails.
No, I'm not going to subject myself, my documents, to the possibility that some bored admin (and no, as an admin I never did that unless corp security so directed) might feel the need to go snooping through people's files. And from a government overstepping their bounds department, they must be salivating at the fact that people are going to start putting personal files on central servers. No need to go trying to get into (by whatever means) millions of individual computer systems, just one.
You have no argument from me. If you don't want to put your documents in cloud service, you shouldn't.
BTW: With VPN capabilities, you can make your own cloud that you can access from anywhere. And it's still under your control.
If you need tighter security measures, by all means set up your VPN. You could also encrypt your files. It all depends upon your security needs. I don't put anything in emails that I wouldn't want my mother to read. And I don't put anything in a cloud file system that I want to be top secret.